(all images from our listing on Realtor.com. I don't have such a great wideangle lense.)
Well folks, we did it!
Our house is officially "on the market!"
We decluttered and remodeled and worked our hinneys off and the house looks AMAZING (if I do say so myself.)
So now we will wait.
Wait for the perfect owners to come along who want to love this little corner of earth as much as we ... View Post

Around our beautimess house, the past two weeks have primarily been consumed with our bathroom upgrade project.
We can see the finish line but we are not there yet.(Have I mentioned how grateful I am that my sister Jemimah and her husband Adam live less than 5 minutes away? Their toilets and showers have saved our bacon multiple times!)Since we are doing 99% of the work ourselves I thought I ... View Post

Some of you may remember when Sweet Man and I tried to sell our house several years ago.
You might remember all the trauma and drama that I went through trying to shove our square -peg house into a round-hole marketplace.
You might remember my mopey post.
You might remember my half-hearted attempt to update* our bath and kitchen.
(*And by "update" I mean painting. Ahem.)
Or maybe you are new here ... View Post

Things are coming along nicely at our little urban cottage farm.
We have some herbs, the squash look like they might just fruit, the tomatoes are a little trickier because the birds REALLY love them (I am thinking we need a scarecrow?) The chicks seem happy, producing lots of eggs, and the windmill keeps turning, day after ... View Post

Even though I hate the humidity, I love summer.
I have so many things to tell you.
And questions I still must answer!
But the days are just whipping by as we get ready for school to end, and I finish the book tour for the summer, and I am having trouble finding time (and energy) to share all the things I want to share.
But our break is just a few days away..
Then it is just one more ... View Post

One of the questions I get a lot is about our chickens.
How do I like raising them? Is it easy? Do we name them?
I am by no means a chicken raising expert, but I will share with you what I do know.
What is the most important thing that you must know about raising chickens?
The number one thing about raising chickens that you must be comfortable with if you are going to take on this project ... View Post